Friends and family new to Linux: Mint. (Best interface options, great community, not sending your search query to amazon.com, very polished.) Personal systems:

Friends and family new to Linux: Mint. (Best interface options, great community, not sending your search query to amazon.com, very polished.) Personal systems: Gentoo. (easiest to customize and automate for me, time investment required.) Nginx/Apache: Debian. (stable security updates, minimal install) MariaDB/Postgres: Debian. (security updates, stable branch, well tested.) Other unless I am stuck with RPM: Debian (long term stability) RPM: Fedora (works, but EOL is always soon, so make sure the server does only one thing)